St. Mary's Railroad

The St. Mary's and Kingsland Railroad, incorporated on October 24, 1906,[1] was founded in 1865 by Captain Lemuel Johnson.

[1] After the death of Johnson in 1918, the railroad was sold to the Southern Fertilizer and Chemical Company in Savannah, Georgia, with the sale being completed on January 24, 1918.

The company declined to change its reporting marks however, thus the locomotives and rolling stock continued to use the St. Marys Railroad name.

The Durango Paper Company closed its doors in 2002 after two industrial accidents at the plant resulted in nearly $200,000 in fines from OSHA.

The railroad has always maintained its own locomotives and cars with a fully equipped shop facility in St. Marys.